With its racecourse gangs and its dirty weekend proximity to London, the Sussex seaside resort of Brighton enjoyed a raffish reputation
Master Detective June 2011
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With its racecourse gangs and its dirty weekend proximity to London, the Sussex seaside resort of Brighton enjoyed a raffish reputation. You also reputedly got a better class of criminal in Brighton. Its crimes had individuality and they were always interesting.
Reporters called California’s latest murder sensation “The Bates Motel Murders” after the psychopathic motel owner Norman Bates in the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. But in reality the case of Dorothea Puente was far more remarkable than anything Hitchcock ever filmed.
Manling was tired of being a wife and mother. The whole family would have to go, she decided. She would have to kill them. All three of them.
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THIRTY YEARS AGO IN CRIME
More fascinating material from MD’s archives
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